10-23-2021, 01:41 PM
(10-23-2021, 07:58 AM)AaronM Wrote: The secret is that it's all small stuff.
A wise man once said that "We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy, which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes."
So, yeah. Don't sweat the small stuff.
I think Carl Sagan was pointing out that our planet and human beings are a very small and insignificant part of the universe. However, he didn't say we should do nothing when a pandemic occurs, and am quite confident in saying he would have supported vaccinations. In fact, he wrote about how the human population should and can survive. So, my conclusion is you just wanted to quote Sagan because you thought it might look smart, but it isn't and it's irrelevant.